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Florence, Rome
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Florence, Rome
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Learning Hands-on and by Trial & Error with Data Curation ProfilesDigCurV
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Florence, Rome
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Florence, Rome
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View from across the Pond: Opportunities, Gaps, and Challenges in Digital Cur...DigCurV
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The Wizard of ID by Parker & Hart
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Digital Stewardship Certificate
Digital Curriculum Laboratory
6. Digital Stewardship Certificate (DSC)
• Fully online program
• 5 graduate-level courses
• pre-requisite: master‟s
degree in LIS, archives
management or related field
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8. Simmons GSLIS
Digital Stewardship Certificate
Topics covered in
LIS 448 Digital Stewardship
1
Context
2
Planning
3 Info
Structure
4
Technology
5
Access
6 Org. &
Mgmt.
Defining
digital
stewardship
Curation
Lifecycle
Description &
Representatio
n Information
Preservation
Action
Users Costs
The
problems
Essentials Appraise &
Select
Store Open access
& sharing
Sustainabili
ty
Models Preservation
-friendly
digital
materials
Ingest TDRs Restrictions
to access
Where
next?
Preservation
methods
Controls &
authenticatio
n
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Required
2 Electives (may be chosen
from):
Internship
LIS 448 Digital
Stewardship
LIS 444 Archiving &
Preserving Digital
Media
• Metadata
• Database Management
• Web
Development/Information
Architecture
• XML
• DAM for LAMs
• Scientific Research Data
Management
Internship
or
Independent
study
Simmons GSLIS
Digital Stewardship Certificate
10. First cohort included
• CIO of a large company
• Professional photographer
• Archivists and librarians at all
stages of their careers from
beginners to the chief archivist
of a major British university
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MAY
2013
12. Digital Curriculum
Laboratory
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Website:
http://gslis.simmons.edu/dcl/public/about/
project name
Archives and
Preservation
Digital Curriculum
Lab
grant number RE-05-
09-0082-09
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09/13/12
University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee
University of Mid Sweden
University College London
20. Continuing Education
courses
• DIGITAL STEWARDSHIP: GETTING STARTED
• DIGITAL PRESERVATION PLANNING
• APPRAISAL AND SELECTION OF DIGITAL
OBJECTS
• EXPLORING AND EVALUATING OPEN SOURCE
DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
• MANAGING BORN-DIGITAL CONTENT RECEIVED
ON PHYSICAL MEDIA
• INGEST – GETTING DATA INTO THE ARCHIVE
• STORAGE OF DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
• ACCESS OF DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
• PRESERVATION APPROACHES
• DESCRIPTION AND REPRESENTATION
INFORMATION (A.K.A. METADATA)
• INTRODUCTION TO LEGAL ISSUES IN THE
DIGITAL ARCHIVE
• INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH DATA
MANAGEMENT FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND
HUMANITIES
• CLOUD STORAGE – WHAT DO I NEED TO
KNOW?
• INTRODUCTION TO EMAIL ARCHIVING
• INTRODUCTION TO WEB ARCHIVING
• INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL MEDIA ARCHIVING
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GSLIS
“I loved the hands-on
exercises we did with actual
files. I would have loved to
have seen more of this …
Hopefully we get that in a
future class!”
„the format of the course
presentation (Moodle) is great! This
is the best format for online course
delivery that I have experienced. The
module format worked well with this
subject matter.‟
„I want to thank you for giving me
such a great grounding in the
field of Digital Stewardship and
Digital Archives last semester. …
when I unexpectedly got this
internship, I felt that I really knew
what I was getting into, and
could understand the issues my
supervisor … was dealing with.‟
24. Contact Information
Martha Mahard
Professor of Practice
Simmons GSLIS
300 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02115
martha.mahard@simmons.edu
Ross Harvey
Visiting Professor
Simmons GSLIS
300 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02115
ross.harvey@simmons.edu
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I bring you greetings from Boston! Last month as we watched the horrible events unfold before our eyes I couldn’t help thinking about the fragility of these images, - the videos and snapshots captured on cell phones, the surveillance videos, - on which so much depended. Now some law enforcement official somewhere is going to be in charge of maintaining those images, preserving their integrity and ensuring that access to them will be possible in the future. Where will they look for help curating these resources? Interestingly, only four days after the bombing the Archive-It Team, of the Internet Archive, began crawling the web for twitter feeds, facebook posts, and news coverage of the event. So one effort is already underway. But this underlines what we have been saying here in many ways. For a social media phenomenon like this which turns into vital legal and ultimately historical evidence we don’t have the ability to plan ahead for the digital preservation. Best practices don’t really come into a situation like this but it does give me the opportunity to use this real life example to lead in to my remarks today.
The state of perpetual motion, constant change and assessment that most libraries and archives exist in today has had a dramatic affect on the field of preservation and education for the field. Reports and studies abound describing the new skills and knowledge required by this new generation of digital stewards. It appears that educational and training opportunities are needed at three levels:formal credentials, such as graduate awards; short courses, perhaps also available as formal credentials or continuing education credits; and informal learning opportunities such as on-the-job training or workshops.
As we have heard yesterday and today recent reports and studies stress the lack of adequate numbers of trained staff to engage with digital preservation responsibilities; DigCurV, DigCeeCurrONE and the Library of Congress’ DPOE Program all emphasize the national (and international) need to ‘provide training to individuals and organizations seeking to preserve their digital content … to make digital preservation training more widely available to working professionals’ [5]. Another theme that we heard stressed yesterday was the need to raise awareness in various sectors and encourage the production of preservation ready materials… although perhaps some progress in this area may be inferred by the appearance in Sunday’s International Herald of this…
Making a joke suggests a certain level of cultural awareness doesn’t it?
Two initiatives based in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at Simmons College, in Boston are aimed at meeting some of the identifiededucational and training needs in digital stewardship.the Digital Stewardship Certificate (DSC), an online program and the Digital Curriculum Laboratory (DCL).
OUR Digital Stewardship Certificateis one of several graduate certificates recently offered by universities in the United States.It is a fully online program of five graduate-level courses (15 credits). Its aim is to impart the concepts and skills needed to create and manage a sustainable digital repository, library, or archive. The main pre-requisite is a master’s degree in library and information science (LIS), archives management, or another field relevant to digital stewardship. Students enrolled in the DSC select one of two schedules: either one course per semester for five semesters (almost two years, with three semesters – Summer, Spring and Fall – per year); or a 1-2-2 schedule over one year. The required courses and electives that make up the DSC curriculum are also available to eligible students enrolled in master’s degrees at GSLIS. They were in fact originally developed for the master’s programs.
As their first course students take the required LIS 448 Digital Stewardship. It introduces them to the field through a life-cycle model, covering topics such as planning the digital archive, information structure, technology, access, and broader management issues.
THIS TABLE notes the topics covered in this preliminary course.
The second required course is LIS 444, Archiving and Preserving Digital Media. This course is more technical, requiring students to learn about and engage with the command-line interface and install, populate and write procedures and policies for a digital archive (currently DSpace; we are also considering adding Archivematica). Students then select two elective courses, chosen from a range that at present includes courses on metadata, database management, web development and information architecture, and XML. Additional courses are being developed, including LIS 532F Digital Asset Management in Libraries, Archives and Museums andLIS 532G Scientific Research Data Management. Students complete the program by undertaking either an internship or an independent study.
The first intake of students in the DSC was in Summer 2012. Students in the first cohort hold master’s degrees in LIS, archaeology, photography, and computer science; among the members of this group are the Chief Information Officer of a large company, a professional photographer, and archivists and librarians, ranging from beginning professionals to the archivist of a major British university. The first students will graduate in May 2013, as this paper is being presented. We are still assessing applications for the second cohort, which also has applicants from outside the U.S. and more applicants outside New England compared with the first intake.
The Digital Curriculum Laboratory is an integral part of courses in the DSC.
This is a high-touch experiential online laboratory developed to support online education in digital stewardship. High-touch is a fundamental aspect of the approach taken to the delivery of all courses at Simmons GSLIS. High-touch characteristics of our online courses include a cohort-based model, group assignments, extensive online discussion, and significant online presence of experienced instructors.The DCL was developed with the support of funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commissionand the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Simmons College. The DCL empowers experimentation in a risk-free, educational environment with a wide range of digital stewardship activities by providing integrated access to digital content, open-source tools and applications, scenarios, and exercises.
The target audiences for the DCL are: Faculty in LIS programs and courses teaching archives, preservation, digital curation and stewardship, and records management, and students in these courses. Staff in institutions charged with or interested in learning more about digital stewardship and preservation. Professionals from a wide range of digital environments who need online workshops or short courses to learn how to apply digital stewardship principles to their specific situation. Other LIS schools, both in the US and in other countries, also participate as partners, and the number of requests from LIS schools and libraries to use the DCL is increasing significantly. Recent inquiries have come from the Library of Congress in partnership with IMLS for use in its upcoming National Digital Stewardship Residency Program, the Smithsonian internship program, the NHPRC, and from LIS educational institutions in the United States, Scandinavia and New Zealand.
The DCL’s potential has been clearly and convincingly demonstrated in courses at Simmons and the other LIS schools where it is used and through the numerous expressions of interest and requests for trial access received. Simmons GLIS has guaranteed sustainability for the DCL by creating a new full-time staff position, the Curriculum Support Developer, whose primary charge is to maintain the DCL, specifically to support Simmons GSLIS faculty and students in the master’s and doctoral programs.
The DCL consists of three main sections: applications, exercises, and scenarios.
The applications are installed instances of open-source software and include DSpace, EPrints, Fedora Commons, Greenstone and Omeka.
The exercises – there are currently 24 of them, with more being developed – provide students with realistic experience in manipulating digital objects through the use of open-source tools.
The scenarios allow students to walk through tasks such as identifying file formats, automating workflows, and migrating files using the software available in the DCL. Other sections provide access to content that can be used in the exercises and scenarios, and to online resources.Redevelopment and expansion of the scenarios, exercises, tutorials and specialized content is already underway. The key outcome will be a stable, rich online environment that is available to a wide audience nationally and internationally, supporting programs offering formal credentials and continuing education programs.
The DCL was initially envisaged as a platform that would provide tools to faculty, educators and trainers in digital stewardship and archives management for building educational modules. It has proven its worth, albeit in a limited context. What we are aiming at next is an interactive online environment that provides high-touch educational experiences in digital stewardship. These tools will be shared in educational forums, and educatorswill be encouraged to use them.
The expansion of the DCL also has the aim of supporting continuing education modules for digital stewardship. These modules are being developed and delivered online in conjunction with the Simmons GSLIS Continuing Education program, which has extensive experience in offering learning opportunities, online and face-to-face, for librarians and archivists. The Continuing Education program offers more than 70 workshops a year in several different formats, including fully asynchronous online workshops run over one month. The instructors are experienced Simmons GSLIS faculty and adjuncts, authors, and practitioners – and all have practical expertise in the subjects they teach. A list of workshops is available on the web. Continuing education workshops are open to all, including but by no means limited to practicing information professionals.
The online continuing education modules focusing on digital stewardship will be available to a wide audience that extends beyond traditional library and information science programs. Sixteen have been planned and three are complete or almost complete at the time of writing. We anticipate that several workshops will be piloted later in 2013 and the full suite offered starting in 2014.
It is still too early to know how graduates of the DSC are being received by the professions. There is some limited evidence available about how students, some of whom are already experienced professionals, perceive the program and the courses within it. Student evaluations of courses provide one body of evidence. Evaluations of the Digital Stewardshipcourse taken in Summer 2012, pointed out areas for improvement (as expected). Students considered the course to be ‘an excellent introduction to the field of digital stewardship’. The hands-on exercises, using the DCL, were positively commented on.The online delivery mode was also considered positively.In addition some unsolicited comments have been received. The course is being recommended to others, always a positive sign. You can read more of the comments in the published version of this talk. These are, obviously, selective comments from the earliest phase of the program. Full evaluation of the program will be sought from graduates of the DSC once they have completed the program, and we are in the process of developing the instrument for this purpose.
Recognizing that both theoretical concepts and experiential learning are essential pieces in the education of future digital curation professionals, the Simmons DSC combined with the DCL offers its students a thorough, well-rounded preparation for their participation in a rapidly emerging field. The program encourages innovation and experimentation, and supports students through field experience and course work. Formal qualifications are only one part of the education and training required, so Simmons is also developing continuing education courses in this field.